Sentence examples for contemplative mood from inspiring English sources

Tiger Woods in contemplative mood.

Overall, though, "Murray Street" achieves a cryptic contemplative mood.

Toward the end of the piece, Cuomo, having just turned fifty, is in a contemplative mood.

Tobacco is a great calmer, it relieves stress, it can put you in a contemplative mood.

Inside, the head priest, Bunkei Shibata, is in a contemplative mood.

Despite Mr. Belcher's contemplative mood, the parade went off with its usual festivity.

But it didn't last long: I got sick of looking at the same Rothko abstract "multiform" month after month, and I eventually decided that the painting was dull and smugly self-satisfied, even though it had formerly lulled me into pleasant, contemplative moods.

Traditionally, Barolo and Barbaresco were regarded as "difficult" wines for novices: huge, powerfully alcoholic and strongly tannic, they were wines for men in contemplative moods on winter evenings.

Similarly, while Murakami novels are far from moralizing, they typically foster a kind of contemplative moral mood.

In his memoir, "Chemical Warfare: Secrets Almost Forgotten," Ketchum explains, "It was my purpose to create a contemplative, suspenseful mood in order to heighten interest, hoping to distinguish this movie from the usual dry Army documentary".

In the Renaissance it would have encompassed both the sacred and the profane, and it suits the contemplative, autumnal mood of the scene, with its bare branches and goldish light.